Cash’s Late Interception Secures UAB’s 21-14 Victory at Marshall

Saturday, November 13

Huntington, W.Va.

2:30 p.m. CST

UAB

7-3 , 5-1

Marshall

6-4 , 4-2

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Cash’s Late Interception Secures UAB’s 21-14 Victory at Marshall

11/13/2021 6:40:00 PM | Football

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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A Grayson Cash interception on Marshall's final drive of the game sealed a 21-14 victory for the UAB football team over the Thundering Herd on Saturday afternoon at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.

The Blazers (7-3, 5-1 C-USA) held the nation's eighth-ranked offense to just 269 total yards and kept the Herd (6-4, 4-2 C-USA) to 22 points under their season average of 36.0 points per game.

CD Daniels led the stout defensive effort with a team-high seven tackles, while Cash, Dy'Jonn Turner, Noah Wilder and Antonio Moultrie each had six.

Offensively, DeWayne McBride had his fourth 100-yard game of the season with 25 carries for 108 yards and two touchdowns. McBride now has 10 rushing touchdowns this season, with nine of them coming in the last four games.

Quarterback Dylan Hopkins completed 13-of-18 passes for 250 yards and added the game-winning rushing touchdown late in the third quarter. Both Gerrit Prince and Trea Shropshire had exactly 100 yards receiving, becoming the first Blazer duo to have 100 receiving yards in the same game since 2017.

The Blazers struck first as Hopkins connected with Shropshire on a 64-yard reception to set up a 3-yard touchdown run for McBride at the 12:39 mark of the opening quarter.

UAB received another big play from Hopkins to Shropshire, this time a 36-yard reception, which set up McBride's second touchdown of the game from 15 yards out to give the Blazers a 14-0 lead with 1:25 left in the quarter.

McBride's touchdown capped a 99-yard drive for the Blazers, their longest of the season, and UAB outgained Marshall 162-43 in the first quarter.

The Herd scored the only points of the second quarter on a 36-yard pass from Grant Wells to Jayden Harrison with 1:05 left in the half as UAB took a 14-7 lead into the break.

Marshall then tied the game at 14 with 4:18 in the third quarter as Wells connected with Corey Gammage Jr. on a 17-yard screen pass. However, the Blazers responded with a six play, 75-yard drive to retake a 21-14 lead with :36 remaining in the third.

The big play of the drive came on a 51-yard reception by Gerrit Prince and Hopkins then finished the drive with a 1-yard touchdown run.

UAB controlled the fourth quarter and put together a 10-minute drive which ate up the clock by converting three third-downs, two of which were receptions hauled in by Ryan Davis.

The Herd gained possession with 3:32 remaining and tried to engineer a game-tying drive, but it was Cash who once again made a huge play down the stretch to seal UAB's victory.

The Blazers won the time of possession 37:43-22:17 and outgained Marshall 338-269 overall.

UAB's win now sets up a massive showdown in San Antonio next Saturday against undefeated and nationally ranked UTSA. The Blazers are the three-time reigning C-USA West Division champs and next Saturday's game will determine the winner of the West Division.